Essential Knowledge Indira Gandhi • Closer relationship between India and the Soviet Union during the Cold War • Developed nuclear program Margaret Thatcher • British prime minister • Free trade and less government regulation of business • Close relationship with United States and U.S. foreign policy • Assertion of United Kingdom’s military power Mikhail Gorbachev • Glasnost and perestroika • Fall of the Berlin Wall • Last president of Soviet Union Deng Xiaoping • Reformed Communist China’s economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth • Continued communist control of government